Development of Web Data Standards

Improving the flow of data

The greatest driver of business change today is data being sent across the Internet. This revolution is changing how companies sell, deliver information, improve productivity and increase their return on investments.

To leverage the power of the Internet, companies need a common language through which to exchange structured information between their computer systems. Today, Extensible Markup Language—XML is the way to achieve this end.

Unfortunately, there is not just one XML-based standard emerging, but many—for different industry sectors, and even several within the same sector. In all likelihood, it will not be possible to interface to just one of the standards. The reasons for this include: your company will not be operating in just one market sector; one standard does not address all your business needs; your business partners may back different standards; standards wars will continue, and you need to back the winners. As the new standards are used, they will grow and evolve. You will have to build and maintain interfaces between multiple systems and multiple XML standards just to stay in business.

Avantia Services

• Develop industry standards
  • Parser APIs: industry standard APIs that allow developers to programmatically access XML data (DOM and SAX).
  • Schema and Structure: set of predefined rules that describe a given class of XML document and also defines structural information about the XML document (DTD, Schema and RDF).
  • Searching and Transformation: standardized methods for selecting data in XML documents, applying formatting rules, and translating documents from one format to another (XPath, XPointer, XSL, and XSLT).
  • Web Services/Remote Object Access: lets applications invoke object methods, or functions residing on remote servers (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI).
• Develop transactional platform prototypes to integrate dissimilar technologies.
• Develop compliance certification tool for servers.